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• Genesis 1:1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The Argument - Moses in effect declares three things, which are in this book chiefly to be considered: First, that the world and all things in it were created by God, and to praise his Name for the infinite graces, with which he had endued him, fell willingly from God through disobedience, who yet for...
• Genesis 1:2: And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (b) As an unformed lump and without any creature in it: for the waters covered everything. (c) Darkness covered the deep waters, for the waters covered everything. (d) He maintained this disordered mass by his secret power.
• Genesis 1:3: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. (e) The light was made before either Sun or Moon was created: therefore we must not attribute that to the creatures that are God's instruments, which only belong to God.
• Genesis 1:7: And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so. (f) As the sea and rivers, from those waters that are in the clouds, which are upheld by God's power, least they should overwhelm the world.
• Genesis 1:8: And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. (g) That is, the region of the air, and all that is above us.
• Genesis 1:11: And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. (h) So that we see it is the only the power of God's word that makes the earth fruitful, which naturally is barren.
• Genesis 1:12: And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. (i) This sentence is often repeated, to signify that God made all his creatures to serve for his glory and for the profit of man: but because of sin they were cursed...
• Genesis 1:14: And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: (k) By the lights be means the sun, the moon, and the stars. (l) Which is the artificial day, from the sun rising, to the going down.